Metalsucks — Watch the band audition five potential candidates to replace Jochem Jacobs. more info

Metalsucks — And the search for a new guitarist has already begun. more info

Metalsucks — Who’ll be the coolest kids at this summer’s shows with their stylish new Textures tanktop? The winners of last week’s Photo Caption Contest, of course: DVincent: “The four people who bought Morbid Angel’s ‘Illud Divinum Insanus : The Re... more info

Metalsucks — Last year’s edition of Euroblast – the two-day technical metal festival held every fall in Cologne, Germany – was the biggest one yet in the fest’s seven-year history, featuring Mnemic, Textures, TesseracT, Vildhjarta, Sybreed, Monuments, ... more info

Metalsucks — Last week we offered up a big package of CDs from Metal Blade Records: Electric Wizard’s Witchcult Today re-issue, Grand Magus’s Iron Will re-issue and Wolf’s Return re-issue and Fates Warning’s Inside Out 2CD/DVD expanded edition... more info

Metalsucks — French label Listenable Records has a history of signing interesting, left-of-center metal acts from all over the world, many before they blew up on the international scene. Gojira, Textures, Ulcerate, Gorod, Hacride and The Amenta are just a few th... more info

Guardian Music — Blaze/Brook/Gilchrist/Hamilton/Hobbs/Lochhead/Mulroy/Dunedin Consort/ButtLinn (2 CDs)Esther is well known to have been the first of Handel's English oratorios, but exactly when it was first heard, and in what form, remains uncertain. The first versio... more info

Metalsucks — Continuing with our recent theme of lyric videos, today we’ve got a brand new one from the Dutch gentlemen in Textures, a visually stunning representation of the lyrics from “Stoic Resignation,” one of the heavier tracks from their 2011 releas... more info

Metalsucks — Dutch progressive metallers Textures — whose stellar new album Dualism ranked on five MetalSucks staffers “Best of 2011″ lists — have been quite the busybodies lately. The group finished a marathon 5.5 week / 32 show tour of North America �... more info

Metalsucks — Textures are masters of the slow build. If you’d never heard Textures before and “Consonant Hemispheres” was your first exposure to the band, I wouldn’t blame you for thinking these dudes are a bunch of softees based on the first minute of t... more info